“We as the Western Cape Shutdown Movement call for greater co-operation between all spheres of government, policing agencies and metro policing forces, together with civil society, religious organisations and organised labour.” This was the impassioned plea of United Public Safety Front founder John Cloete and a group of about 300[…]
Child advocacy organisation Save the Children is calling on restaurants to review their child safeguarding policies, in the wake of the recent “Dros Rape” case, that has shocked the country. Last week, a seven-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a 20-year-old man in a bathroom of the Dros restaurant in[…]
Following days of protests in southern Yemen’s capital Aden over the government’s inability to tackle an economic crisis, a southern separatist group on Wednesday called for independence and a popular uprising. Yemen is suffering a crippling economic crisis as the rial plummets in value and prices of essential goods rise[…]
An Italian court on Wednesday sentenced a man to 12 years in jail for shooting and wounding six African migrants in a racially motivated attack in the central city of Macerata. Luca Traini, 29, went on the shooting spree on February 3 in what he said was revenge for the[…]
The wife of former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak was charged with 17 offences, including money-laundering, as anti-corruption agents investigate billions of dollars missing from state coffers. Rosmah Mansor smiled and waved at reporters as she was escorted into court but said little on Thursday. She was arrested on Wednesday[…]
A routine roadblock in a Central Karoo town led to the arrest of at least one young woman and the seizure of a kilogram of methamphetamine (tik) worth an estimated R350 000, Western Cape Police said on Wednesday. “Efforts to eradicate trafficking of drugs along our main entrance and exit[…]
One person has been killed and two others sustained serious injuries following a collision between two trucks and a car near Rawsonville in the Boland. Traffic Chief, Kenny Africa, says the road is still closed. “On the N1 between Worcester and Rawsonville we a had a head on collission between two[…]
Western Cape police arrested a man in Delft when they responded to a “murder in progress” complaint and saw members of the community attacking him. He is expected to appear in the Bellville Magistrate’s Court on Thursday in connection with child rape allegations. Western Cape SAPS spokesperson Captain FC van[…]
Two Americans and a Briton won the 2018 Nobel Prize for Chemistry on Wednesday for harnessing the power of evolution to produce novel proteins used in everything from environmentally friendly detergents and biofuels to cancer drugs. The fruits of this work include the world’s top-selling prescription medicine — the antibody[…]
Russia has delivered an S-300 surface-to-air missile system to Syria, it said on Tuesday, in defiance of Israeli and US concerns that the arms sale would embolden Iran and escalate theSyrian war. Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu told President Vladimir Putin during a meeting “the work was finished a day ago,” adding[…]
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